Hahnemann
that potenzid medicines would cure the sick that it seemed to me a mystery.

I had no knowledge upon which to found belief in such things.

I began to practice with the lower potencies and with crude drugs
attempting to carry out the law, but with these means I was able to cure
only superficial complaints.

My work was far from is factory, yet it was somewhat better than the old
things ; it was milder than physicking and purging and emesis.

Of course I rested upon my opinions and beliefs for my knowledge ; every
does that.

Later, I resolved to test the

30
th potency to see if there was y medicine in it, and I prepared with my own
hands the 30
th potency of Podophyllumwith water on the centesimal
scale, after the fashion of Hahnemann,
having been told that water was as good as alcohol.

This was during an epidemic of diarrhoea it looked like

Podophyllum,
but I had no courage to give the 30
th and still continued to use my stronger medicines.

One day a child was brought into my office in the mother's arms.

She brought it in hastily, and it did not seem as if it could live long.

It was an infant, and while it lay in her arms a thin yellowish faecal
stool ran all over my carpet.

The odour struck as like that I had been reading about as the odour of
the

Podophyllumstool ; it was horribly offensive,
stinking, and the stool copious that the mother made the remark that she did
not know where it all came from.

I said to myself, this is the case upon which to test

Hahnemann’s
30
th potency.

So I fixed up some of the

Podophyllum30and put it on the child's tongue,
and sent the mother home, fearing at the child would soon die, as it was
very ill, face pinched and drawn, cadaveric, and it had a dreadful odour
about it.

Next morning, when making my rounds, I had to pass the house ; I expected
to see crape on the door.

I did not care to call, though I was very much worried about it, so I
drove past ; but there was no crape on the door.

I drove home again that way, although it was quite a distance out of the
way, and still there is no crape on the door ; but standing in the doorway
was the grandmother, who said :

" Doctor, the baby is all right this morning."

Then I began to feel better, thinking I had not killed the child.

That little child did not need any more medicine.

After that I had quite a number of

Podophyllumcases, and the 30
th did work to my astonishment.

It was different from anything I had ever seen ; the cures were almost
instantaneous, it seemed as if there would be no more stool after the first
dose of medicine.

I used the

30
th potency all the season, and then made up my mind that if the 30
th of Podophyllumwas good, other 30
ths would be also, and I ought to have as many of them as possible.

I made a good many

30
ths by hand, and finally succeeded in making up 126
remedies, some of them in the 200
th potency, and these I used.

Then I procured a set of

200
th potency and higher and practised with them.

I followed on in this way and in a few years I discovered that by giving
higher and higher potencies the remedies seemed to operate more and more
interiorly.

I found that a chronic case that would be relieved by moderately high
potencies would only improve for a matter of weeks but on the administration
of much higher potencies the work would be taken up, and in that way the
same patient could be carried on from one potency to another.